Re: Aplay zombie processus

Aplay is a harmless command line audio player that uses ALSA. It will
play multiple formats.
It's opposite application is Arecord, a command line audio recorder.

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Re: Aplay zombie processus

On November 9, 2008 14:10, in alt.os.linux.ubuntu, DCampa
(d.campa@skynet.be) wrote:
> Ih
> I have aplay zombie processus runing in my ubuntu 8.10
> and I cannot kill him

No, zombies are already dead. You can't kill a zombie.
> any idea how to kill him

Kill the process that started the zombie in the first place. If that's not
acceptable, then you'll have to /fix/ the process that started the zombie
process.

Zombie processes hang around until their parent process collects their
termination status. If the parent doesn't collect the status, then the
zombie hangs around forever. So, what you have to do is either convince the
parent to collect it's children's termination status (which may just be a
config option, or may be a program change), or kill the parent so that the
zombie children are adopted by the init(8) process (init(1) will collect
their termination status right away).